Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad are award-winning authors with children’s books featuring Palestinians. They have filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles after their invited author talk for teen patrons at Los Angeles Public Library was cancelled without explanation three days before the scheduled date of December 6, 2025. In this edited transcript, Jenan and Nora discuss what it feels like to be censored, the pervasiveness of anti-Palestinian racism, and their reasoning for filing the suit in order to save the integrity of libraries.
— Read on lithub.com/why-we-are-suing-the-city-of-los-angeles-to-save-libraries/
Why is There No Socialism in the United States? – The Brooklyn Rail
What is capitalism anyway and why is it bad? What is socialism and how does it differ from capitalism. How is it good? And who will change the one to the other, how, and why? This is, alas, where things become complicated.
— Read on brooklynrail.org/2026/10/field-notes/why-is-there-no-socialism-in-the-united-states/
ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
— Read on www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-plans-intel-units-in-every-field
Kaepernick: Jay-Z Became the “Black Face” the NFL Was Seeking – MeidasTouch
The NFL wanted someone “to help us subvert the protests” and “work counter to the people’s interests.”
— Read on meidasnews.com/news/kaepernick-jay-z-became-the-black-face-the-nfl-was-seeking
Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump – https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-bidens-genocide-accomplices
Caribbean – “U.S. re-colonising’ – Former Guyana Presiddent
When the Left Distances Itself From Black Lives Matter, Far Right Policies Win | Truthout
Alec Karakatsanis explains how both Republicans and Democrats have used the backlash to increase the powers of police.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/when-the-left-distances-itself-from-black-lives-matter-far-right-policies-win/
errand #30
There is no end to the work
Only beautiful rest
Shanti U Look Just Like Her
Shanti, you look just like your ma!
a beautiful and Free Woman, may
the universe or God or whoever
bless her and your soul, we need
as many vigorously free artistic
women walking Earth as we can get
I mourn that I never got to meet her
Shanti, you look just like your ma!!
The Hollowed Vocabulary: Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institutional Capture of Anti-Zionism
All of a sudden we were navigating a new organizing terrain where everyone became self-avowed anti-zionists almost overnight. The act of people calling themselves anti-zionists was completely decoupled from political implications and became a rhetorical move similar to how people will declare that they aren’t racist, without ever really considering what racism is, how it functions, or what it actually entails to be anti-racist. Just as claiming to be anti-racist in the United States indicates alignment with certain political commitments — reparations, an end to mass incarceration, material accountability for those who have upheld and/or benefitted from white supremacy — being anti-zionist demands more than vibes.
